Seattle Boudoir Team Photography Session

Guest Post by Autumn Adams.

As a photographer of weddings, maternity, senior portraits and whatever else comes my way, you have the pleasure of meeting a lot of people whose personalities cover a wide range.  As a friend of Jennifer Mobley (do-er of hair extraordinare for Seattle Boudoir Photography) for about 5 years now, I knew I was walking into an energy and fun filled experience when I went to photograph Seattle’s fabulous Boudoir Photography team, but man oh man…I got way more! 

You can’t help but automatically love everyone that makes up this team, and believe me, they love you right back.  The environment alone is very inspiring with huge windows, loads of natural light, exposed brick walls and then the lovely ladies and epic photographer, Phil Holden, seal the deal with their smiles, energy, sense of humor, artistic abilities and their professionalism.  They love what they do and it shows. 

I can’t wait to go back, whether it be for another project, or perhaps….to be the project. Here are just a few of the team photographs taken that day. 

Click on this video if you want to see some of the funny video outtakes from the session plus a few more photographs. 

Tags: Boudoir Photography, Boudoir Studios, Seattle Photography Studios

Hubby’s wonderful birthday present

We have been really lucky to spend lots of time with Ms G recently, who came into our boudoir photography studio a little while ago.  Now we are able to share a couple of Ms G’s photographs here, only she is the photographer this time!  She and her husband jaunted down south to Portland and stayed in lovely hotel for his 40th birthday.  Little did Mr G know what was in store!  

Ms G went on to say  “Things with the birthday celebration and gift went really well.  I decided to give him the photos before dinner hoping to give him something to think about all evening.  I also put the black lingerie outfit [from the session] on and wore it under my dress the whole time too!  It was so much fun!!!  He loved the pictures and was very surprised.”   We have now met Mr G as he came back into the studio to look at all their photographs together and we are working with them to come up with some other ideas to display them, yeah!  

So – here he is, getting his wonderful birthday gift.  Thanks a lot, Merilee.

 

   

 

Some silly outtakes of Merilee – the lighting maven

After taking a couple days off after an amazing boudoir weekend here in our studio in Seattle we gearing up for another busy week.   We’ve started to go through the many 100’s of photographs that were taken of our amazing clients that visited this weekend and are super excited to see them later this week and next to show them our selection.   I realize that I’m a little bias (really ?!?!?)  but from what I have seen so far we got some lovely shots- thank you for being so beautiful and wonderful to work with our lovely clients  

As part of the process we always have a bunch of outtakes of the team and tonight I thought I would post these, mostly of Merilee this time, with a brief cameo from Nicole.   Before each client comes on the different sets Merilee and I test and make any last minute adjustments to the lighting based on the outfits that clients are wearing and the mood we are going for.   Seeing as I’m typically behind the camera, I torture Merilee with her sitting, standing, climbing or her favorite laying down and ask her to pose for me.  And at times it gets a little silly as you can see from these – fun times for sure!

 

       

Mission accomplished!

One of the most rewarding things about doing boudoir photography is hearing great feedback from our clients (I mean who doesn’t love a little positive reinforcement?).  Many people come in with the goal of giving someone a gift of intimate photographs of themselves, and we are always tickled to hear about the follow-up stories.  The lovely Ms. N was kind enough to share her experience with us.  She and her husband went away for the weekend for his 40th birthday, and this is what she had to say:

“HE LOVED THE PICTURES!!!!!  He couldn’t believe that I (Mrs. HATE having her picture taken) would do them.  He has told all his friends, coworkers, and even a few coffee stand girls about his gift.  He can’t wait to come back in and see more.  Thank you again for all that you guys did.  I am sending you the pics of his expression (sooooo funny).” 

And yep, you guessed it, here are the photos.  This is one happy birthday hubby!

Video outtakes from Merilee’s new video

A couple of days ago Merilee and I created a new video for our latest Summer Bide Promotion.  If you haven’t read her blog entry from yesterday you can find it here.    Although she says that she got asked to create the video because she is the newest member of the Seattle Boudoir Photography team that’s actually not quite true!   We’ve quickly noticed that Merilee is super quick at picking things up, is a great writer, has a wonderful personality and her humor is very dry.  So add those all together and she was the perfect one to be on camera!    So, Merilee – expect more video work soon     

Here is a quick blooper reel that I put together from the few clips that we didn’t use, if you have a spare minute and want a giggle hit the play button below.  

 

Behind the scenes with Seattle Boudoir Photography

One of the most frequent questions that we get asked is ‘what is it like to be on camera?’    Our potential clients look at the beautiful photographs and wonder what it takes to make them, what our studio is like and who will be there.  We put together a video a while ago,and are working on creating a new one, but one thing we want to do more frequently  is to take still shots from our sessions to show you some of the behind the scene outtakes. 

These were taken at our last promotional weekend in Seattle.  We chose to blur some the faces of the ladies as they haven’t yet given their guys the gifts, but these give you a sense of what it is like. This particular weekend we had the two Jen’s, Nicole, Phil and Merilee all working and taking care of our clients.   We just love our clients and can’t tell you how much fun we have.  These photographs taken by Merilee Jones. 

 

 

 

       

Andrew receives a very special gift

 

I was swapping email with Ms B who just returned from a romantic weekend away with her very lucky boyfriend.   She has visited our boudoir photography studio in Seattle for one of our fun sessions just before valentines day.   Her goal for her session was to create some beautiful and classy photographs to give boyfriend as a unique gift that they would both treasure for a very long time.  Not surprisely he completely loved the gift and was completely speechless when she gave it to him.   She told me it was ok that I post these two snaps that she took in their hotel room – isn’t love grand!     

Jester says hello

Depending on their sleeping schedule its not completely usual to get to see the two cats that choose to adopt me many years ago.  Although in truth Jones is a little shy and she is a rare visitor when a photography shoot is happening.   Jester however has never been considered shy and often watches from the distance and occasionally wonders over to say hi.  Here he is looking for some attention in our photography studio in Belltown Seattle, so cute!